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After months of anticipation, dedicated Builders everywhere will finally have access to a new lighting system, redstone mechanics, updated mobs, and more when the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update goes live next month. Find out what we know about the official "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update release date, and what to expect when the patch goes live.
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Since having a lengthy discussion about the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update during MineCon 2012, much of the information about the upcoming title update for Mojang's hit sandbox game was released to the public via weekly (and occasionally bi-weekly) "Minecraft" snapshots and accompanying weekly explanation from Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams. That all changed with Saturday's tweet confirming the upcoming launch date for the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update.

Of course, given the snapshots' weekly release schedule, Mojang is hardly keeping the more than 9 million "Minecraft" PC players in the dark regarding the development of the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update. But, since announcing a delay of the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update's original January 2013 launch window, Mojang has remained relatively mum on the subject of a release date.

So, what can "Minecraft" players who haven't been keeping tabs on the weekly snapshots look forward to when the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update is released next month?

In addition to a major lighting engine overhaul, the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update will also bring a number of changes to the game's Redstone mechanics, including giving advanced Builders the option to use varying strength Redstone currents in their designs. Mojang has also added several new blocks, new ore, scoreboards/leaderboards for multiplayer servers, mobs' new fear of minecarts, scaled the difficulty of existing mobs, and fixes for a number of the game's most commonly-occurring bugs.

The a number of users from the /r/minecraft sub-reddit have also created a helpful thread to track all of the changes that are expected to be introduced when the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update is released next month.

Have you been playing each week's new "Minecraft" snapshot while waiting for the release of the "Minecraft" 1.5 Redstone Update? What are you most looking forward to with March's major "Minecraft" update?

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